Dr. Sharon Bird • Associate Professor

PhD Washington State University BS, MA University of Oklahoma 217B East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 (515) 294-9283 FAX: (515) 294-2303 sbird@iastate.edu Curriculum Vitae

Professor Bird’s teaching and research focus primarily on issues of inequality and paid labor. She is currently Co-PI and Research Director on ISU's ADVANCE Institutional Transformation project. ADVANCE is an NSF-funded project focused on the recruitment, retention and promotion of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.  Her work on the project includes the implementation of a “collaborative transformation” (action) research model aimed at improving STEM workplace climate, building quantitative data sets from existing data sources, and data analysis and dissemination based on these data sets. She is also currently doing research on gendered organizations, the sex gap in small business success and is interested in the following subject areas: and the sociology of work; the social construction of masculinities; race, class, and gender theory; organizational demography. Bird’s research appears in journals including Gender & Society, Social Psychology Quarterly, Rural Sociology, and Sociological Forum.

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